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It’s been a little while since we heard what was happening with the E-cat cold fusion machine. You’ll recall it was HIGHLY questionable and HIGHLY implausible. See all stories here. It still has not been proven to work. But it appears there is an investor who has bought the rights to the technology. Dubious Cold…

Do you remember the Rossi E-cat machine? It was featured in Popular Science and debunked by skeptics. Now, a new study is out. Let’s take a peek. Hmm… Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi’s E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All – Forbes. I haven’t posted about Rossi and his E-Cat since…

Here is a feature from Popular Science about Rossi’s free energy claims. Can Andrea Rossi’s Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World–Or Just Scam It? | Popular Science. On January 14, 2011, a 61-year-old Italian inventor named Andrea Rossi staged a spectacular demonstration. In a warehouse in Bologna, he switched on a strange contraption that looked…

Fleischmann Dead at 85: End of an Era. Martin Fleischmann, co-discoverer with B. Stanley Pons of a phenomenon they initially attributed to nuclear fusion, is dead at 85. Fleischmann died on Aug. 3 at his home in Tisbury, U.K., in the presence of his family. When he and Pons claimed to discover a new, cheaper…

Dick Smith offers $1 million for proof of cold fusion technology | Australian Skeptics Australian Skeptics patron, Dick Smith, will give $1,000,000, with no strings attached, to an Italian inventor if he can prove his cold fusion invention works. “I do not want to know how the unit operates, nor to have a share in…

E-Cat ‘Cold Fusion’ Machine: Claims of Fraud Heating Up – Yahoo! News. In December, Rossi approached Dick Smith, an Australian entrepreneur, and asked him to invest $200,000 in the development of the E-Cat. Intrigued but skeptical, Smith asked Ian Bryce, an aeronautics engineer and member of the group Australian Skeptics (a group of which Smith is a patron)…

Mystery blue box sank ‘cold fusion’ for Dick Smith The engineer charged by entrepreneur Dick Smith with examining the plausibility of “cold fusion” technology being spruiked by a NSW retiree has detailed a string of reasons why he believes the mooted invention is flawed. Aerospace engineer Ian Bryce said sloppy procedures, shoddy set up and…

Oz skeptic offers prize if Rossi’s E-cat works • The Register. Australian entrepreneur, philanthropist, skeptic, aviator and eccentric Dick Smith has offered $AU200,000 for proof that the Andrea Rossi “energy catalyzer” actually works. The E-cat is purportedly a cold fusion device which – stop laughing, you down the back – attaches hydrogen atoms to nickel…

Hope, skepticism for cold fusion – Business – The Boston Globe. The Italian scientist who says he has developed the world’s first cold fusion reactor – a claim that has been hotly contested in scientific circles – visited the State House last week to explore the prospects for developing and manufacturing the device in Massachusetts.…

Cold fusion rears its head as ‘E-Cat’ research promises to change the world (Wired UK). Rossi, an Italian inventor, claims to have come up with the Holy Grail of power generation, an “Energy Catalyser” or E-Cat, which produces limitless energy. He has already carried out laboratory demonstrations in front of scientists and the Italian media,…